Greyhound, 118 Much Park Street
| Alternative Addresses: | Half Moon Yard | ||
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1756 | 1845 | Crown and Anchor | |
| 1756 | ? | Crown | |
| 1841 | 2001 | Greyhound | |
| 2001 | 2008 | Jailhouse | |
Before 1841 see the CROWN AND ANCHOR. In the 1841 Census the address is given as 'Half Moon Yard'.
In 1982 it was "a popular pub with good beer, standing isolated in a car park, an old bomb site that was once the site of the Phillips and Marriotts brewery."
In 1991 it became a Charles Wells pub and in 2001 was renamed the JAILHOUSE because of its proximity to the Police Station. However, by the time it closed in 2008 the external GREYHOUND signage had been returned.
After being bought by Severn Trent Water on August 12th 2008 it closed permanently and was demolished on the 12th June 2010.
Note the longevity of the Standbridge family who kept the pub for around seventy years. Reuben kept it for nearly fifty. He was 31 when he took it over so he would have been in his eighties when he left.There are a number of possible explanations of this name: a) A famous mail coach which travelled between London and Birmingham. b) A heraldic reference to the Dukes of Newcastle. c) The greyhound was formerly used in the chase but is now mainly associated with greyhound racing. | |||
LICENSEES:1835 - 1841 Thomas Ward 1850 - 1858 William Standbridge 1858 - 1862 Reuben Standbridge (moved from the Dun Cow) 1862 - 1863 John Collins 1863 - 1906 Reuben Standbridge (died 17th Jan 1906) 1906 Eliza Standbridge 1906 - 1913 Herbert Reuben Standbridge 1913 - 1914 Thomas Bates 1914 - 1915 Herbert Reuben Standbridge 1915 - 1920 George Nightingale 1920 - 1925 Samuel Daffern (died 1925) 1925 - 1926 Mary Elizabeth Daffern 1926 - 1928 Arthur Roland Manley 1928 - 1931 Albert Claude Greenway 1931 - 1933 Horace Cotterell 1933 - 1937 Clement James Jones (died 24th Feb 1937) 1937 - 1940 Mabel Harriett Jones (widow of Clement) 1952 - 1968 William James and Doris Arnett 1982 Craig Robinson | |||